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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

3:41am

(AP) After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions...

I-5 bridge collapses in NW Wash.; people in water

11:36pm

(AP) An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said.

IRS replaces official in tea party controversy

6:37pm

(AP) A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that...

(AP) President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of...

Obama: Policy in leaks investigations under review

5:40pm

(AP) Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting...

Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover

3:43pm

(AP) For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something...

Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive

2:39pm

Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone

10:42am

(AP) President Barack Obama is set to at least partially lift the veil of secrecy surrounding U.S.-directed drone strikes around the world, a key component of...

Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech

9:37am

(AP) A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of...

Brave woman tried to reason with London attackers

8:38am

(AP) A British government official says both suspects in the brutal killing of a solider were part of previous security services investigations for possible terror...

UK official: Suspects part of previous probes

8:38am

(AP) A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who...

Man shot by FBI had spoken with bombing suspect

5:38am

(AP) A government investigation found poor quality construction materials and building code violations were among the "series of irregularities" that caused the collapse of a...

Building materials blamed in Bangladesh disaster

12:39am

(AP) Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime shouting political...

Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears

9:38pm

(AP) The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The...

4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes

5:39pm

(AP) Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing and it was trying...

One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path

1:41pm

(AP) Syria's main opposition alliance on Wednesday urged fighters from around the country to reinforce a rebel-held town under attack by President Bashar Assad's troops and...

Syrian opposition urges rebels to join key battle

10:39am

(AP) Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.

Anthony Weiner launches bid to become NYC mayor

3:40am

(AP) With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40 years.

Okla. residents come home to pick up the pieces

3:40am

Scranton mayor race pits Courtright, Lewis

12:40am

Luzerne County Controller Walter Griffith's pending felony wiretap charge didn't stop Republicans from choosing him as their nominee for another term, according to unofficial election results.

Griffith survives primary

12:40am

Bednar bests Urban in Dems’ contest

Roundup of municipal primary election results

12:39am

Fewer than one in five registered Luzerne County voters went to the polls Tuesday for the Democratic and Republican primaries in which many ballots were uncontested and there were few countywide races to drive turnout.

Turnout low and a wait for write-ins

12:39am

Lawyers Alexandra Kokura and Jerry Mecadon will square off in the Nov. 5 General Election for the district judge seat vacated when Fred Pierantoni became a Luzerne County judge, according to unofficial results late Tuesday night.

Kokura, Mecadon capture Pittston DJ nods

12:39am

Eight candidates ran for spot in expanded magisterial district, all but two cross-filed.

(AP) The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for...

Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.

5:39pm

(AP) Iran's election overseers removed potential wild card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a...

Top figures barred from Iran's June ballot

3:38pm

(AP)

Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

2:36pm

(AP) Jodi Arias told a jury Tuesday that she can contribute to society if allowed to live, saying she'd like to start literacy, recycling and other programs in...

Arias tells jury what she'll do if allowed to live

2:36pm

(AP) Backed by elite troops of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, Syrian government forces fought rebels in a strategic opposition-held Syrian town near the Lebanese border...

Syrian, Hezbollah troops fight rebels in key town

12:36pm

(AP) The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who...

In tornado's wake, worried parents seek out kids

11:38am

Leading Senate Democrat: IRS behavior intolerable

10:39am

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